Films about writers

Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written by Karan Shrikant Sharma, directed by Sameer Vidwans and produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Bhumika Tewari, Shareen Mantri Kedia and Kishor Arora under the banners of Dharma Productions and Namah Pictures. The film stars Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday in the roles, alongside Neena Gupta, Jackie Shroff and Tiku Talsania in supporting roles.

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.

1998 film by John Madden

Love Actually is a 2003 Christmas romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The film features an ensemble cast, composed predominantly of British actors, many of whom had worked with Curtis in previous projects. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it was mostly filmed on location in London. The film delves into different aspects of love as shown through 10 separate stories involving a variety of individuals, many of whom are interlinked as the plot progresses. The story begins five weeks before Christmas and is played out in a weekly countdown until the holiday, followed by an epilogue that takes place in the New Year.

1949 film directed by Carol Reed

1961 film directed by Blake Edwards

2013 film by Spike Jonze

2006 film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

2001 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2014 film directed by David Fincher

1997 film directed by James L. Brooks

2011 film directed by Tate Taylor

2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry

2007 film directed by Joe Wright

1999 film by Pedro Almodóvar

2016 film by Morten Tyldum

1945 film by Billy Wilder

1979 film by Woody Allen

2004 film directed by Mike Nichols

Knives Out is a 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film's eleven-actor ensemble cast is led by Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a famed private detective who is summoned to investigate the death of a bestselling author. Police think his death is a suicide but Blanc suspects foul play and investigates to ascertain the true cause of it. Johnson produced Knives Out with his longtime collaborator Ram Bergman. Funding came from MRC and tax subsidies from the Massachusetts state government.

It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.

Misery is a 1990 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by William Goldman. It is based on Stephen King's 1987 novel and stars James Caan as famed novelist Paul Sheldon, who is held captive by Annie Wilkes, an obsessive fan. The supporting cast includes Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, and Lauren Bacall.

2019 film directed by Greta Gerwig

1964 film by Michael Cacoyannis

1972 film by Bob Fosse

2011 film directed by Wes Craven

2013 film directed by Paolo Sorrentino

2010 film by Roman Polanski

Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County wine country to celebrate Jack's upcoming wedding. Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen also star as women they encounter during their trip.

2023 film directed by Justine Triet

1994 film by Michael Radford

1984 film by Robert Zemeckis

2016 film by Paul Feig

2007 film by Mikael Håfström

2015 film directed by Rob Letterman

Nostalghia (released as Nostalgia in the United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.

2011 film directed by Neil Burger

2008 American film directed by David Frankel

2004 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

2004 film directed by David Koepp

1996 film by Agnieszka Holland

2000 film by David McNally

2012 film directed by Scott Derrickson

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman. It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, and the second installment in the Knives Out film series. Glass Onion sees Daniel Craig return as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron and his closest friends. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.

2004 film directed by Richard Linklater

2006 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones

1994 film by Gillian Armstrong

2015 film directed by Judd Apatow

1998 film directed by Woody Allen

2015 film by Guillermo del Toro

1961 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

1985 adventure comedy film by Lewis Teague

1997 film by Woody Allen

2016 film directed by Tom Ford

1992 film by Roman Polanski

1994 film directed by John Carpenter

1988 film by Lawrence Kasdan

2006 film by Marc Forster

2003 film directed by Nancy Meyers